GMAS Key Terms and Definitions

a group of connected scenes in a drama

• episode

• act

• sequence

• performance

words used in a text to imitate sound

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• rhythm

using text evidence and background knowledge to fill in the holes of a text in order to gain a deeper understanding

• summarizing

• analyzing

• predicting

• inferencing

comparing two things by stating that one is something else

• hyperbole

• similie

• metaphor

• idiom

repeating the beginning sounds in words multiple times in a line of text

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• rhyme

figurative language that compares two things using like or as

• idiom

• metaphor

• alliteration

• similie

the main thing the passage is about

• topic

• theme

• central idea

• lesson

something that describes the personality of a character

• attitude

• behavior

• trait

• emotion

a point of view in which the narrator is outside the sory and uses the pronouns he or she

• second-person point of view

• third-person point of view

• first-person point of view

a story's message, or the focus of a story

• theme

• plot

• topic

• central idea